Day 19: September 23, 2025 – Exodus 22-25 and Psalms 6, 146

Moses is given a whole variety of other laws while Aaron and the other leaders are accompanying him. It is fascinating to see that the leaders of Israel are allowed to go up the mountain with him and are allowed to see his presence and have a meal with him. It is all very casual while at the same time apparently very terrifying. But then Moses once again separates himself to be with the Lord and is with him for forty days and forty nights. We will see that this will become a problem in the next few chapters. Again, it strikes me as incredible that Aaron and those with him are not able to control the people even after they saw the face of the Lord.

Psalm 6 is a great psalm to study to understand what a psalm of lament looks like. It begins with the problem: the author is in need of healing because of an unknown malady that is striking him. He laments his present situation and asks for mercy by God. It seems as if things are continuing to go south until we see in vs.8 a transition from an appeal for mercy to a declaration of deliverance by the Lord. Laments often move from, well, lament to celebration over the fact that God has listened and has delivered. The faithfulness of God is always revealed as constant.